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Stanislas dehaene born may 12th 1965 in roubaix france married to ghislaine dehaene lambertz, 3 children guillaume, david, olivier. Arithmetic and the brain stanislas dehaene, nicolas molko. A left temporofrontal network for language processing in 3 monthold babies g. Books on natural history have recounted the following anecdote since the eighteenth. The visual word form area adapts to recurrent orthographic patterns in a given culture it responds more to words than to consonant strings binder et al. Considering only recent work, dolphins37 and salamanders38 havejoinedmacaques39,40,tamarinmonkeys41,42, and lions 43 in the list of number competent.
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